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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'So much for that.',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/05/27.jpg" alt="Bushes and trees" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Bottled water is more expensive than gasoline?
			I don&apos;t buy bottled water <strong>*or*</strong> gasoline, so I hadn&apos;t thought to compare the prices of each.
			That&apos;s a really interesting statistic though, and something to bring up next time someone tells me I&apos;m gross for drinking tap water (it doesn&apos;t happen often, but it does occasionally).
		</p>
		<p>
			As we run out of fresh water, we&apos;re going to have to start drinking water that isn&apos;t as healthy and will make us a bit sick.
			We&apos;re using water at a higher rate than nature can provide it, but we&apos;re also impairing nature&apos;s ability to clean water for us with all the damage we&apos;re doing to the planet.
			We need to be pushing much more for sustainability than we are; otherwise, quality of life is going to continue to degrade.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You may find it surprising that waste isn&apos;t handled properly, but I don&apos;t.
			Companies like to cut corners wherever possible to save money.
			As long as we let them get away with it, this will continue.
			There needs to be bigger penalties levied on those that would contaminate our water supplies.
			The only way to make companies care is to hit them where it hurts: their pocketbooks.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="extracurriculars">
	<h2>Extracurriculars</h2>
	<p>
		For at least a year now, I&apos;ve considered on and off taking some sort of martial arts classes.
		They could be useful for the self-defence aspects, but more than that, they&apos;d be something to help me get in shape that should be more interesting than hitting a gym.
		However, I&apos;ve never felt I really had time for that sort of thing.
		Tonight, I started thinking about it again.
	</p>
	<p>
		In addition to the physical fitness benefits, martial arts (at least the styles I&apos;ve heard of) tend to teach discipline and restraint.
		These are things I could use a lot more of.
		I thought I&apos;d try to fit this in.
	</p>
	<p>
		First off, like I said, I don&apos;t have time.
		Ironically, if I had more discipline, I&apos;d be able to keep on task and get my coursework done faster, opening up more time to focus on something such as a martial art, which would in turn help me to achieve the discipline needed to have opened up that time to begin with.
		I came up with a plan tonight though.
		The other day, I saw a listing of what was supposedly the course materials for every course at my university.
		I&apos;d slowly try to get ahead in my current course, then try to get one full term ahead of the game.
		As long as I could stay one term ahead, I&apos;d have that buffer, where the only new due-that-week material I had to work on was the discussion assignments, which I should be able to easily keep up with even if I started to slip with the early work.
		If I started to fall too far behind in the future work, I&apos;d have time to discontinue the martial art lessons without suddenly disappearing.
		I wouldn&apos;t have this per-week question of whether I&apos;d be able to make it to practice.
	</p>
	<p>
		I decided to take a look tonight to see exactly what I could get ahead on before writing up my course of action, and it&apos;s a good thing I did.
		Apparently, the only thing I can get ahead on is the reading material.
		Not a single assignment is available in the course material repository.
		I&apos;m going to need the course reading material fresh in my mind when completing the assignments, so I&apos;d have to reread it all again anyway if I got a jump start on <strong>*only*</strong> the reading material.
		I&apos;d save no time whatsoever, and getting ahead wouldn&apos;t actually involve getting ahead.
		What a let down.
	</p>
	<p>
		So this isn&apos;t going to work out.
		I do need more discipline though.
		I&apos;ll have to work on that on my own for the time being.
		I&apos;ll focus on trying to get my work done earlier so I can make room for something other than work and school, though it&apos;ll need to be something I can drop at a moment&apos;s notice if my attempts to stay ahead go south.
	</p>
</section>
END
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